[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3876]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1830. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

       On page 820, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
       (b) Protection of Whistleblowers.--Section 4602(d) of the 
     Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2702(d)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph (5):
       ``(5) In the case of a protected disclosure relating to the 
     contract described in subsection (b) of section 4446 
     (relating the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization 
     Plant), the owner's agent specified in subsection (a) of that 
     section.''.
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